Programming Exercises

This set of exercises is meant to test your knowledge of the concepts covered in block 2 of the course. All questions are Multiple Choice!

Exercise 1

What is the evolutionary path of code, ideally?

Exercise 2

Which of these types of data is persistent?

Exercise 3

Which of these file formats are interoperable?

Exercise 4

Which of these file formats are binary?

Your turn!

Think about what the underlying structure of the non-binary file formats might be.

Exercise 5

What are the good ways to store nested data on disk (in a file)?

Exercise 6

Guess what the following code snippet in Python would return

x = [1, 2, 3]
y = x
y.append(4)
print(x)

Exercise 7

Guess what the following code snippet in R would return

x <- c(1,2,3)
y <- x
y <- c(y,4)
print(x)

Your turn!

Try to replicate the above behavior of R in Python (the copying of variables). Hint: you can use shallow copies